The Secret Key

     Music=
1. WhisperI'lllistentohearit
   -Spoon

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UFOtext=
I. The Lost City
"Leizu - Princess - carbon unit - dead - Astira - carbon unit - delete now"
Hot thoughts raced in Astira.
"Stop- Princess Leizu not dead. She travel in time on spaceship near light cone. Tau zero. She travel 50,000 years to now. She sent me. History check- she disappear. No death. You know this?"
Astira's finger tightened to a hair trigger. Her fate flickered in the air.
"Death - confirmed - negative"
The drone approached closer. It quivered with telescoping wings. More drones emerged from dark passages in the wet rocks.
"Astira- face recognize- negative"
"Astira - proof - negative"
Astira scrambled her memory. What was Vivienne's secret key? Joshua told her.
"I know royal crypto-key."
Astira watched the drone. More drones flew like hawkish arrows through the mist. She could only kill a few drones in time. But she could take cover behind the dragonship.
"Astira - Ledger - Must verify - now"
The drones circled in their killing vectors.